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utf-16

I’ve been using Python scripts to automatically edit and output Windows Resource files (*.rc) for C++ projects in Visual Studio 2013. When handling Unicode, Windows and Visual Studio always want little endian UTF-16 encoding, and the resource file should always start with the Unicode BOM (Byte Order Mark). However, despite the promises in the documentation, I found that Python wasn’t outputting the BOM automatically.